Female
News Announcer: Until early July workers were employed by SCM,
an office products supplier, but then the company was sold to Ampad.

Man:
One
day
we had a job, and the next day we didn't.

Randy
Johnson: We'd been bought and sold in the past. We'd never
had a problem; we were always a business that had value.

Sharon
Bennett, former SCM Employee: Then when Bain Capital bought us
and Ampad come in, that was a whole different story. They put
armed guards up at the doors, did not look at anyone, did not speak to
anybody and told us we were all fired.

Jerry
Rayburn: I understand if you've got to cut back, layoffs, I mean
that's part of the business. We accepted that over the years when
we were there. But you don't come in and just take everything
everybody's got and destroy a business. I mean that's what they
did.

We were a nice strong, healthy company, we were
making money, and for them to just come out from nowhere and shut the
place down, it was devastating.

News
Announcer: When Ampad bought the former SCM plant, it abruptly
fired all 350 workers. The union says it reduce wages and
benefits.

Jerry
Rayburn: First thing they did is knock the pay down...

News
Clip of Jerry Rayburn from 1994: We've got people in here that
[inaud.] wages that they made 14 years ago.

Jerry
Rayburn: ...took our benefits. We didn't have any more
retirement. And Bain, Mitt Romney, they did not care about us as
workers. They were looking at the mighty dollar.

Valerie
Bruton: When I look at the clipping that I have in the paper of
the closing, that's where it all started for me. This was the
worst day of my life.

At the time all this happened I was pregnant, have
two kids at home, and I just lost my job.

Jerry
Rayburn: From week to week I didn't know what I was going to
do. I was barely getting by. Groceries were thin.

Valerie
Bruton: When SCM shut down the doors, that was the first time
I'd ever been in the system with food stamps. Then I had to get
on Medicaid. It was just, it was rough, but I did it...Randy Johnson: You did
it because you had to.
Valerie
Bruton: I had no choice because I had my babies, my babies
depended on me.

That was the most degrading thing. I mean
don't get me wrong; it's there for a reason. But I never in my
whole life ever think I would have to resort to that because I wasn't
raised like that. My parents instilled in me you give it 110
percent of whatever you do in life. So when you're not raised
with getting public assistance, that was very devastating to me.

Randy
Johnson: As a leader, that was my job too. When you have
to sit there and watch people's faces, and they're looking to you for
the answers and they just break down, and it'll choke you up; it's
real.

Sharon
Bennett: I had my electricity turned off and my heat turned off
and they were threatening to take my car. I was scared. I
mean it affects every aspect of your life.

News
Announcer: As for Ampad's side of this story--News Reporter: No
interviews, no response, no reaction, no comment, nothing?Security Guard: That's
what I was just told; I'm just doing what I'm told.

TEXT: 2000
Ampad is saddled
with massive debt and files for bankruptcy.
Bain Capital has
made over $100 million in profit.

Jerry
Rayburn: To me Mitt Romney takes from the poor and the middle
class and gives to the rich. He's just the opposite of Robin Hood.

Randy
Johnson: And just think we're talking about just the companies,
but how many businesses associated with those companies, how many mom
and pop shops, how many restaurants, how many bars and things like that
around these plants, how many small communities were devastated?
It doesn't just stop, you know, with the worker.

Jerry
Rayburn: It makes me sick to my stomach when I sit there and
watch Mitt Romney tell the American people about how he creates all
these jobs.
Valerie
Bruton: They're not jobs for a middle class person. I mean
you would have to work his job and two other jobs just to maintain.

Sharon
Bennett: You can tell by the way he acts, the way he talks, he
doesn't care anything about the middle class or the lower class people.
TEXT: Ampad isn't the only company Bain Capital has profited from
bankrupting...

Randy
Johnson: Mitt Romney's philosphy for doing business is to take
over companies just to get some money, then dump the business no matter
what. If that's his approach to American economy, I can't imagine
it being very pretty for the workers. Every person that's on the
lower scale right now wants to work to the middle income, and they'll
work their tail off in this country to do it, and if Mitt Romney's in
charge, I don't know whether they're going to get the opportunity at
all.